Swing Vote

IMDb link: 0181040
IMDb rating: 6 (631 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Andy Garcia, David Anspaugh
Cast: Ray Walston, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky and others

Release date: 19 Apr 1999
Release year: 1999
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: judge, judge as protagonist, lawyer as protagonist, u.s. supreme court justice, title co written by female, social issue, reference to roe v. wade, tv news, chief justice, trial lawyer

Plot:

Joseph Kirkland, new appointee to the US Supreme Court, suddenly finds himself the center of attention as his other eight justices have split their votes down the middle on a case involving a woman who is charged with murder after she had an abortion.

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